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I'm sorry... were you eating?

I think my mother has a hex on him, Matthews, and Olbermann for their Clinton coverage. Keith looked genuinely stricken, on Countdown this evening. Will the Clintons send flowers?

icangetyouatoe wrote:

I am sure he had many symptoms he ignored for many weeks. Having regular heartburn, indigestion, feeling tired, "off", and not getting regular cardio checks and stress tests over forty is just a dumbass, irresponsible thing to do. Not that anyone here is over 40 or anything..

He had checkups, knew about his condition, and had a stress test on April 29th.  He also got regular exercise and had lost 10 pounds.

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fnord wrote:

CBS News carried on as if it were a national tragedy that will cause massive mourning and depression among the American people.  This will affect most Americans’ emotional state as much as if the Prime Minister of Iceland dropped dead.

Geir is dead?!?? Say it ain't so, fnord, say it ain't so...where the hell are my sackcloth and ashes...

fnord wrote:

CBS News carried on as if it were a national tragedy that will cause massive mourning and depression among the American people.  This will affect most Americans’ emotional state as much as if the Prime Minister of Iceland dropped dead.

You know, I was thinking the same thing...they announced it like he was a head of state or something.

And that's a sincere wow, not an ironic wow.

icangetyouatoe wrote:

And that's a sincere wow, not an ironic wow.

Well, now that I know a bit more, it's possibly not quite as much of a wow.  The stress test thing is scary, because you'd hope that these kinds of tests would pick up a terminal failure ahead of time, but the exercise and weight loss was part of something that he and Tom Brokaw had started doing fairly recently, apparently.

So, who gets "Meet the Press" and the Washington bureau chief seat?

pALEPHx wrote:

So, who gets "Meet the Press" and the Washington bureau chief seat?

I could see Tom Brokaw maybe on the Washington bureau chief seat, but I'm not sure if he'd be the right pick for Meet the Press.

pALEPHx wrote:

tojo2000 wrote:

I could see Tom Brokaw maybe on the Washington bureau chief seat, but I'm not sure if he'd be the right pick for Meet the Press.

Brokaw is doing today's MTP. They're knocking around names from Gregory (yawn) to Olbermann (not really his shtick) to guys like Lehrer and [Jon] Stewart (too newsy vs. not newsy enough). Andrea Mitchell's name even cropped up, once or twice. There's always Matthews, but I think MTP will be a series of guest hosts (including some of those mentioned) until they find someone with the supposed gravitas. The poll here basically decided it was tacky to be asking before the guy was even in the ground.

Gregory might work, but he'd have to get a bit more lively.  Chris Matthews is a bit too buffoonish.  The part of the reputation (deserved or not) of Meet the Press they'll probably be trying to preserve is that of a "serious" show where the host asks the tough devil's advocate questions. 

You know, it's a bit crazy, but Phil Donahue might be worth giving a try.

To tell the truth, though, the perfect man for the job would be Jeremy Paxman.

headkicker_girl wrote:

fnord wrote:

CBS News carried on as if it were a national tragedy that will cause massive mourning and depression among the American people.  This will affect most Americans’ emotional state as much as if the Prime Minister of Iceland dropped dead.

You know, I was thinking the same thing...they announced it like he was a head of state or something.

Nothing like the media frenzy when Crown Prince John F Kennedy Jr. dumped his plane into the drink.

Let me follow that with something more traditional:

Oh, wow. Is Russert still dead?